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On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Scott Bambrough wrote: > The attached program experiments with getopt_long. It prints optarg for > each option, or (null) if optarg is NULL. If I attempt to use the -o > option I get the following results. > > $ ./getopt_test -o > optional argument: (null) > > $ ./getopt_test -o arg > optional argument: (null) > Non - option ARGV elements: arg ./getopt_test -oarg produces the result you want. This behaviour is documented in the man-page. It boils down to the fact that libc can't know if 'arg' is supposed to be associated with -o if it's in a separate word. Tim. */
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